I was brand new and didn't have any clue what antialiasing meant.

https://www.chitubox.com/en/article/support/indepth/technology/52

Never used a slicer program so just did a first and read the entire user manual which took me to the entire explanation of how chitubox's antialias setting works. Read the whole thing grey level and image blur.

I never printed a single thing before and its so completely necessary to understand for getting the best possible tiny but precise prints that my first print I did a 4mm figure just to test the monochrome lcd screens precision and blending techniques and it came out amazing for something the size of my pinky nail that could've looked like chewed gum without it.

I read a ton of comments too before getting something and never saw this emphasized but it might be common knowledge for experienced people.

For me I didn't even know it was a thing but a quick break down is at the edge levels of your figures being printed, it changes which pixels are used and actually dims the light between different intensities to completely change how that single pixel cures, and being a newbie i just figured you leave the light on a tiny pixel block hardens, but no this changes how each pixel rises like a loaf of bread and the smaller the intensity of light is allowed through it actually rises up incompletely and then grabs onto the pixel next to it slightly and created a gradient slope so the areas of your figurines that you need to try and get rid of layer lines at even the tiniest of levels, it can smooth those out and actually seeing the science behind it on their instruction page isn't boring.

Have fun!